"Sentimental Value" — Read, Study, & Download The Screenplay by Eskil Vogt & Joachim Trier
What We Inherit Isn’t Property — It’s Memory.
"Sentimental Value" is a quietly devastating family drama about legacy, artistic ego, and the emotional real estate we never quite move out of. When a once-celebrated filmmaker re-enters the lives of his estranged daughters, old wounds resurface inside a house that has absorbed generations of love, neglect, ambition, and silence.
Written by Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier, the screenplay moves fluidly across time, memory, and perspective, treating the family home not as a setting but as a living archive. This is storytelling where the drama isn’t announced -- it’s remembered.
A masterclass in emotional accumulation.
"Sentimental Value" — Educator Resources & Study Guide
How to Write Memory Without Nostalgia.
The "Sentimental Value" screenplay offers profound lessons in writing emotional history without sentimentality. The script demonstrates how structure, repetition, and point of view can carry decades of unresolved conflict without relying on exposition or melodrama.
For screenwriters, this is an essential study in intergenerational storytelling, restrained emotional payoff, spatial memory, and how personal history shapes artistic identity -- all while keeping the narrative intimate and grounded.
→ Download the full Educator Breakdown (PDF) for tone analysis, screenwriting takeaways, classroom discussion topics, and a Critical Lens on legacy and authorship. For the complete screenplay download, scroll until you see the button.
Sentimental Value (2025) — Classroom Study
The "Sentimental Value" script is a masterclass in writing emotional history without nostalgia or melodrama. The screenplay explores how family, memory, and artistic ambition coexist uneasily inside shared spaces -- particularly the family home, which becomes a repository of unresolved feeling rather than comfort. Rather than dramatizing conflict through confrontation, the screenplay allows meaning to accumulate through silence, repetition, and restraint. This is storytelling that trusts the audience to feel what isn’t said — and rewards patience with emotional precision. For screenwriters, it’s a lesson in how structure, memory, and environment can do as much narrative work as plot.
- Writing family conflict without exposition.
- Using setting as emotional architecture.
- Memory vs nostalgia in storytelling.
- Artistic ambition and ethical cost.
- Parent–child relationships in adult narratives.
- When silence is more revealing than dialogue.
- Multi-perspective storytelling.
- Why restraint often hits harder than spectacle.
"Sentimental Value" One Sheet & Script Intel
Two sisters reconnect with their estranged father, a filmmaker set on crafting his career opus. After his eldest daughter turns down the lead role, he casts a Hollywood star in her place which sparks old wounds, compelling them to face their fragile family ties and the bonds that unite them. NEON
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FYC
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| Version | ... | v2.3English |
| Date | ... | 08.18.2024 |
| Pages | ... | 137 |
| Genres | ... | Drama Emotional Empowered Women |
| Screenplay | ... | Eskil Vogt Joachim Trier |
| IMDb ID | ... | 27714581 |
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